The Very Fine Clock

Macmillan , 1969 Oblong 8vo (17 x 23.5 cm), [32] pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj slightly rubbed at extremities, small tear at the head of the spine). Muriel Spark's first children's book Illustrated by Edward Gorey. The first UK edition.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good +. Edward Gorey. Oblong octavo, unpaginated. Illustrated by Edward Gorey. A fine copy in a very good or better dust jacket with some creasing and one small chip, all at the bottom of the rear panel. Very slightest sunning to jacket spine - less than usual for… Read more about this item

London; Macmillan and Co. Ltd., 1968., 1968. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Landscape octavo, pp. [32]. 13 full page illustrations by Edward Gorey, plus pictorial endpapers and 2 vignettes. Publishers' purple cloth with silver titles to spine, in price clipped pictorial dust-jacket also by Gorey. Board edges are very lightly sunned. Light creasing to dustjacket with 2 cm… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan, 1969. A first edition, first printing published by Macmillan in 1969. A very good book with some spotting to the front endpaper, without inscriptions. In the very good clipped wrapper with a closed tear to the bottom edge of the front panel. Spark's first (and only?) children's book.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good +. Oblong octavo, unpaginated. Illustrated by Edward Gorey. A fine copy in a very good or better dust jacket with one small close tear and two very minor chips, all on the front panel. Spine sunned and offset on the very bottom of the front panel. A… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan and Co, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Gorey, Edward. The jacket is creased, shelf stained, chipped at the edges with a biro squiggle across the clock. It also suffers from loss at the head of the front flap which has caused minor damage to the edge; there's an ownership signature… Read more about this item

Knopf, 1968. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Macmillan, 1969. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.